Albert Holley House

In 1857 Albert Holley, born in 1828, migrated with his mother and two brothers from Alabama to Houston County. While the others traveled to Texas by boat, he brought the family's supplies overland by wagon with 137 slaves. By 1860 he and his wife Julia Russell had begun homesteading this land. After serving in the Civil War, during which he was a prisoner of war, Albert continued to farm here. In 1867 he built a new home for his family at this site. He died in 1907, and the land remained in Holley family ownership until 1976. In 1994 the house was relocated to Trinity County, about 3.8 miles south of this site on FM 2781.

Texas · United States